by christinekenneally | Mar 24, 2023 | News
“Ghosts of the Orphanage is Christine Kenneally’s harrowing exploration of institutional child abuse centred on a former Catholic orphanage… It is a measure of her nous as a journalist, as well as her patience and persistence, that she uncovered as much...
by christinekenneally | Mar 20, 2023 | News
“Journalist Christine Kenneally sparked worldwide headlines in 2018 when her BuzzFeed exposé about a history of abuse at Burlington’s now-closed St. Joseph’s Orphanage spurred local and state authorities to launch a review that confirmed misconduct, if not the...
by christinekenneally | Mar 17, 2023 | News
“The stories from St. Joseph’s were so appalling that it was difficult for authorities — and for Kenneally, at first — to believe them. Surely the 50-year-old memories were flawed? Surely the children had imagined these things? But over 10 years of...
by Christine Kenneally BH | Apr 1, 2015 | News
The Invisible History of the Human Race has made the 2015 Stella Prize shortlist. Here’s what the judges had to say: The sciences and the humanities are traditionally thought of as separate, or even as opposite, fields of study and endeavour, but...
by Christine Kenneally BH | Feb 14, 2015 | News
Foreign Soil by Maxine Beneba Clarke (Hachette) The Strays by Emily Bitto (Affirm Press) Only the Animals by Ceridwen Dovey (Penguin) This House of Grief by Helen Garner (Text Publishing) Golden Boys by Sonya Hartnett (Penguin) The Invisible History of the Human Race...
by Christine Kenneally BH | Feb 14, 2015 | News
The 19 Best Nonfiction Books Of 2014 "…a fascinating and wide-ranging investigation of our obsession with ancestry and genetics" BuzzFeed Books Christmas Gift Guide Local writer Christine Kenneally is winning rave...